Why do you make art?
I am interested in art as a form of communication and self-help. It provides me with a platform in which I can connect, communicate, share or exchange Ideas and experiences with others.
Who do you make it for?
Me and You.
Do you have heroes? Is so, who, if not why not?
I would have to say that I don’t have heroes but rather people who inspire me, like people who run into burning house’s to save others from dying, that sort of thing. Kiefer, Schnabel and Rauschenberg aren’t too bad either. I have a few literary or philosophical influences. These people inform my work a great deal more in many cases, than the artists to whom I am attracted. I connect with the philosophy of Seneca the Younger and Stephen Dunn poetry.
Do you plan out a piece or do you wing it?
I PLAN, but sometimes human things happen as human things go.
How do you know when you are finished?
I end a work always before the moment of resolution arrives. This confronts the viewer with the artistic process. I aim to reflect life and art as on-going, not a solution.
What was the first exhibition/artwork you saw that blew your mind?
Théodore Géricault ‘The Raft of Medusa’.
Name a recent exhibition that impressed you?
Robert Rauschenberg’s combines series, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France 2006.
If you could have any artwork in the world what would it be?
Anselm Kiefer ‘Cain and Abel’.
